A team can share a schedule with everyone who needs it while keeping editing access to the planning sheet within a smaller group.
Google began rolling out standalone links for Sheets canvases on November 11. A canvas is an interactive view built with Gemini from spreadsheet data. Its published link opens a read-only view of the canvas and has an audience setting separate from the spreadsheet. People with edit access can publish from Sheets on the web. The existing Drive setting for publishing files to the web also applies.
Rapid Release domains began receiving the feature on November 11. Scheduled Release starts December 2. Google says each rollout can take up to 15 days. It lists eligible plans including Business Standard and Plus, Enterprise Standard and Plus, and consumer Google AI Pro and Ultra.
Test the link as a viewer
Make a small canvas with a harmless marker, such as a dummy event called Draft agenda. Open the published link from an account that can see the canvas but lacks access to the source file. Check the view for fields and filters that the audience can reach. Then change the marker in the spreadsheet. A static snapshot should keep the old value. An automatically republished canvas should pick up the change.
Repeat the audience check before sharing a live canvas fed by a file that changes regularly. Spreadsheet editing permissions and the published canvas audience are separate settings, so review the audience on the actual link you intend to distribute.
Abdessalam Alaoui
I'm Abdessalam Alaoui, founder of Musthave.AI. I write practical guides to AI models, tools, generative media.
